Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Reviews
The Aliens - Setting Sun
A fine pop song with a demented twist Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Live Music
Blood Red Shoes @ Cabaret Voltaire
Despite Carter's bug, the Shoes remain defiantly buckled Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Live Music
This Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 25 Jan
O.B.E. come out all guns blazing, a funk foursome on fast-forward. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Live Music
Ray LaMontagne @ SECC, 22 Jan
Ray LaMontagne gigs on a Monday night, let it be said, are a good thing. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Reviews
Grinderman - Grinderman
The wailing cry of love bludgeoned by vitriolic distortion Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Live Music
Fall Out Boy @ The Garage
Even the sturdy brick walls of The Garage creak under the strain Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Reviews
The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus
If it was a little more original then it'd be a great record Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Reviews
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
Less Reagan-era missile crisis and more moralistic tales Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: Dick Gaughan, City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, 22 Jan
If only we could understand more of the words. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Reviews
Various - ShockRock
Down on Yourself' rocks, but this is countered by an inferior version of 'NY Excuse' Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Opinion
XFM Column
How Soon Is Nul? Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Reviews
Cat Power - The Greatest
I don't think it's too early to call this one a classic. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Live Music
Kessler @ King Tut's
Souls who choose to face up to the tiresome force of the bleak city and wrestle from it the vitality that pulsates within Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: Beth Nielsen Chapman @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Utterly compelling, utterly remarkable. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Live Music
Lee Patterson @ Whistlebinkies
So vivid are his depictions of Edinburgh life that you can almost taste the sea breeze as he recites his tales of Leith Read more »| 10 Feb 2007